Make Decisive Strike great again!

No, i dont want the old DS back, but actually the new DS is trash as an antitunnel-perk. Where is actual the effect of new DS? It just prolongs the tunneling, cause no killer will let you go especially not when they run into DS.

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So my idea:

Using whatever is at hand, you stab at your aggressor in an ultimate attempt to escape.

After being unhooked or unhooking yourself, Decisive Strike will become active and usable for 40/50/60 seconds before the exit gates are powered.

While Decisive Strike is active, when grabbed by the Killer, succeed a Skill Check to automatically escape the Killer's grasp, stun the killer for 2 seconds, and become cloaked by the Entity for 5 seconds.

• Succeeding or failing the Skill Check will disable Decisive Strike.
• Successfully stunning the Killer will result in you becoming the Obsession.
• Cloaked status will grant you total invisibility (No scratch marks, no bloodstains, no noises).
• As long as Decisive Strike is active and the killer remains in a range of 12 meters the timer will stop for as long as the killer remains in that range. This doesn’t apply if the killer is engaged in a chase or the exit gates are powered.
• Enduring doesn’t effect the stun time.
• All aura reading abilities are disabled while having the cloaked status.
• While having the cloaked effect you can’t enter exit gates or the hatch.

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Why all these prerequisites and those effects?

The effects:

First, the stun effect: it is just to ensure the killer doesnt strikes back in a random manner after DS activates. Otherwise there would be no meaning in the cloaked effect if you get downed immediately, cause the killer gets a lucky hit on you. Within these 2 seconds the survivor should probably get the distance needed to be not within attack range (M1).

Second, the cloaked effect: Its like the Wraith Invisibility while standing still, just in regards of survivor means. So you dont leave scratch marks or blood stains, neither do grunts of pain or breathing. Youre literally vanished for everyone (even other survivors cant see you). It ensures that the killer doesnt immediately resumes the chase and the survivor has the chance to hide. Of course he can run around and try hitting you, you just have to be smart in your choice where to hide.

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The prerequisites:

1.) After being unhooked or unhooking yourself: should be self explanatory.

2.) for 40/50/60 seconds: should be self explanatory too.

3.) before the exit gates are powered: this is to prevent killers from being unable to secure kills during endgame. Tunneling is most likely an issue before endgame, to ensure survivors get the possibility to play the match, and not being unable to do anything.

4.) As long as Decisive Strike is active and the killer remains within a range of 12 meters the timer will stop for as long as the killer remains in that range. This doesn’t apply if the killer is engaged in a chase or the exit gates are powered: this ensures that the killer doesnt camp the unhooked survivor til the timer ends. Also it makes clear to the killer that it’s better to engage into another chase than wasting their time. The first addition is to ensure abusing the mechanic by survivors lingering around the downed survivor. The second addition is for killers as mentioned in 3.)

5.) Enduring doesn’t effect the stun time: self prevention for the perk to work as intended.

6.) All aura reading abilities are disabled while having the cloaked status: is to ensure that neither the killer nor the survivor gets any “lucky” advantage on the situation. For example if the killer runs Bitter Murmur and during the cloaking it would trigger, DS would be totally wasted and vice-versa with Dark Sense on survivor side. So the perk shouldnt get strengthened/weakened on any side.

7.) While having the cloaked effect you can’t enter exit gates or the hatch: is to ensure abusing by survivors.

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The re-use problem:

The only problem i see with this design is how often it should be useable. Once after the first unhook, or twice for both unhooks? As its now it would activate once, but the tunneling will probably go on after the second unhook, cause of salty/toxic killers. As far ea i know who its to be tunneled an entire game i would like to active it twice, but its might be too strong, but it then would get rid of those just only tunneling killers, cause they have to adapt to a "fair" playstile.

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So hope i didnt forget any situational issues which might be seen when having such an effect. But as youve seen now, its very complicated to create an antitunnel-perk cause of those situational happenings, where the perk might break some wanted mechanics.

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Would like to hear your PRECISE FEEDBACK. As well as yours devs @not_Queen @Patricia @Peanits

PS: Yeah I´ve too much freetime atm ;)